Fresh from dropping his children off at school, Mr Jones ambled through the hall into his family’s sitting room, before almost immediately tripping over a toy robot and falling hard to his knees. “Bloody kids! Why can they never put away their toys? I tell you Martha, unless they’re going to learn to be tidier
I’ve recently been doing some guest blogging for Eric Schwitzgebel’s fantastic blog The Splintered Mind. Here are links to the six posts I wrote this summer. (1) Why was sci-fi so slow to discover time travel? Most themes in contemporary science fiction have precursors in earlier mythology and folklore, but time travel doesn’t appear in fiction until